The idea for the album came from Francesco De Melis. The Italian music producer's vision was to bring a new dimension to Morricone's music by adding lyrics to some of his favorite compositions. The next step was to invite Portugal's acclaimed fado singer Dulce Pontes to breathe vocal life into them for the first time. Meanwhile, Morricone returned to his Rome studio to rearrange and reorchestrate the music, and wrote five entirely new compositions especially for Dulce Pontes. The resulting collaboration contains pieces from every phase of Morricone's extraordinary 40-year career of composing almost 500 film scores. They range from the familiar themes of film classics such as Once Upon A Time In The West (1969), The Mission (1986) and Cinema Paradiso (1988), to some of the lesser-known and lesser-seen pictures for which he composed scores.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cinema Paradiso (tema De Amor De Cinema Paradiso)
2. A Rose Among Thorns (the Mission)
3. Renascer (moses)
4. No Ano Que Vem (come Maddalena)
5. Your Love (once Upon A Time in the West)
6. Am lia Por Amor
7. Nosso Mar (metti Una Sera A Cena)
8. Antica Palavra, (featuring Carel Kraayenhof)
9. La Luz Prodigiosa, (la Luz Prodigiosa)
10. the Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti (sacco E Vanzetti)
11. Someone You Once Knew (per Le Antiche Scale)
12. Voo
13. I Girasoli
14. House of No Regrets (chi Mai)
15. Barco Abandonado (per Le Antiche Scale) (bonus Track)